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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Spasmodic \Spas"mod"ic\, a. [Gr. ?; ? a convulsion + ? likeness:
     cf. F. spasmotique.]
     1. (Med.) Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm;
        occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic
        asthma.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as,
        spasmodic zeal or industry.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Spasmodic croup (Med.), an affection of childhood
        characterized by a stoppage of brathing developed suddenly
        and without fever, and produced by spasmodic contraction
        of the vocal cords. It is sometimes fatal. Called also
        laryngismus stridulus, and childcrowing.
  
     Spasmodic stricture, a stricture caused by muscular spasm
        without structural change. See Organic stricture, under
        Organic.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Spasmodic \Spas*mod"ic\, n. (Med.)
     A medicine for spasm.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Spasmodic \Spas*mod"ic\, n. (Med.)
     A medicine for spasm.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Spasmodic \Spas"mod"ic\, a. [Gr. ?; ? a convulsion + ? likeness:
     cf. F. spasmotique.]
     1. (Med.) Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm;
        occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic
        asthma.
  
     2. Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as,
        spasmodic zeal or industry.
  
     Spasmodic croup (Med.), an affection of childhood
        characterized by a stoppage of brathing developed suddenly
        and without fever, and produced by spasmodic contraction
        of the vocal cords. It is sometimes fatal. Called also
        laryngismus stridulus, and childcrowing.
  
     Spasmodic stricture, a stricture caused by muscular spasm
        without structural change. See Organic stricture, under
        Organic.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  spasmodic
       adj 1: affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions;
              resembling a spasm; "convulsive motions"; "his body
              made a spasmodic jerk"; "spastic movements" [syn: convulsive,
               spastic]
       2: occurring in spells and often abruptly; "fitful bursts of
          energy"; "spasmodic rifle fire" [syn: fitful]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  spasmodic
     Romanian a.
     (l en spasmodic)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  spasmodic
     a.
     1 Of or relating to a spasm#Noun; resembling a sudden contraction of
  the muscle#Noun.
     2 convulsive; consisting of spasms.
     3 intermittent or fitful; occurring in abrupt burst#Noun.
     n.
     A medicine for suppressing spasms.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  spasmodic
     Romanian a.
     (l en spasmodic)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  spasmodic
     a.
     1 Of or relating to a spasm#Noun; resembling a sudden contraction of
  the muscle#Noun.
     2 convulsive; consisting of spasms.
     3 intermittent or fitful; occurring in abrupt burst#Noun.
     n.
     A medicine for suppressing spasms.

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  spasmodic
     Engelska a.
     krampaktig

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Spasmodic /spazmˈɒdɪk/
  متقطّع

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  spasmodic //spæzˈmɑ.dɪk// //spæzˈmɒd.ɪk// 
  1. конвулсивен
  convulsive; consisting of spasms
  2. спазматичен
  of or relating to a spasm

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  spasmodic /spazmˈɒdɪk/ 
  přerušovaný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  spasmodic /spazmˈɒdɪk/
  krampfhaft, schubweise 
     Synonym: spasmodical
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  spasmodic /spazmˈɒdɪk/
  spasmisch, krampfartig  [med.]

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  spasmodic /spazmˈɒdɪk/
  sprunghaft, sporadisch 

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  spasmodic /spazmˈɒdɪk/
  
  σπασμωδικός

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  spasmodic /spazmˈɒdɪk/
  grčevit

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  spasmodic /spazmˈɒdɪk/
  1. hirtelen
  2. szaggatott
  3. görcsös
  4. lökésszerû

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  spasmodic /spæzˈmɒdɪk/ 
    spazmatyczny

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  spasmodic /spazmˈɒdɪk/
  1. (tıb.) ıspazmoz kabilinden
  2. ara sıra ve birdenbire vaki olan, birden gelip geçen. spasmodical  spazmodik
  3. birdenbire gelip geçen. spasmodically  spazmodik olarak
  4. birdenbire gelip geçerek .

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/spæzˈmɔdɪk/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  239 Moby Thesaurus words for "spasmodic":
     acute, adrift, afflictive, afloat, agonizing, aimless, alternating,
     amorphous, arrhythmic, atrocious, biting, broken, broken off,
     capricious, careening, casual, cataclysmic, catchy, changeable,
     changeful, changing, chopped-off, choppy, convulsive, cramping,
     cruel, cyclical, decousu, desultory, deviable, deviating,
     deviative, deviatory, different, disarticulated, disastrous,
     disconnected, discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disjunct,
     disjunctive, disordered, disorderly, dispersed, disproportionate,
     distressing, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform,
     dizzy, eccentric, eclamptic, episodic, erose, erratic,
     excruciating, fast and loose, fickle, fidgety, fitful, flickering,
     flighty, flitting, fluctuating, formless, freakish, frivolous,
     giddy, gnawing, gratuitous, grave, griping, guttering, halting,
     haphazard, hard, harrowing, harsh, herky-jerky, heteroclite,
     hit-or-miss, hurtful, hurting, immethodical, impetuous, impulsive,
     inchoate, incoherent, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive,
     indiscriminate, infirm, intermittent, intermitting, interrupted,
     irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jagged, jerking, jerky,
     jiggety, jumpy, lurching, mazy, meaningless, mercurial, misshapen,
     moody, motley, mutable, nonconformist, noncontinuous, nonlinear,
     nonsequential, nonserial, nonstandard, nonsymmetrical,
     nonsystematic, nonuniform, occasional, orderless, orgasmic,
     painful, parenthetic, paroxysmal, patchy, periodic, piercing,
     planless, pluralistic, poignant, promiscuous, pulsating, pungent,
     racking, ragged, rambling, random, restless, rough, roving,
     saltatory, scatterbrained, scrappy, seismic, senseless, severe,
     shapeless, sharp, shifting, shifty, shooting, shuffling, snatchy,
     spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodical, spastic, spineless, sporadic,
     spotty, stabbing, staggering, stinging, straggling, straggly,
     sudden, suspended, systemless, tormenting, torturous, twitchety,
     twitching, twitchy, unaccountable, unarranged, uncertain,
     unclassified, unconnected, uncontrolled, undependable, undirected,
     undisciplined, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfixed, ungraded,
     unjoined, unmethodical, unmetrical, unordered, unorganized,
     unorthodox, unpredictable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained,
     unrhythmical, unsettled, unsorted, unstable, unstable as water,
     unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsuccessive, unsustained,
     unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, upheaving, vacillating,
     vagrant, vague, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying,
     veering, vellicative, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile,
     wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical,
     wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  adj.间歇的;突发性的

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 抽筋;发作的

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